Amazon.de just reviewed the Ohm64 and it appears to be a very good review. We received 3 stars out of 3. I can’t read German, but my German friend says “THEY SAY IT’S GOOD & WORTH THE $!” so I am going to go with that. If I still lived in Hoboken I would go to Helmers for a Wehenstephan Weiss (they also have an amazing saurbraten). But I don’t so hopefully our German users can have one for me.

You can read the full review translated in English by Google here (I am sure some of it will read as nonsense) http://bit.ly/e0kb1 and in German here for those lucky enough to eat red cabbage and potato dumplings on a regular basis http://www.amazona.de

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Once again, the short-sighted naming of apps strikes again! OhmSampler is now LividSampler, and works with Ohm64 and block. I’ve fixed some quirks about saving the setups, and samples play for the duration of the button press (rather than the duration of the selection). It’s damn fun to drop a bunch of weird sounds and just start messing around. I highly encourage such activity!
Also, In my effort to get the monomeBridge working for the block, I released it broken for the Ohm64 . Oops. It’s fixed now.
As always, the download links are here:
http://www.lividinstruments.com/support_downloads.php

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Nice review with video from Max4live.info!

Hardware Review: Livid Instruments Ohm64.

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I’m giving a rundown of our VJ software and our controllers at the Los Angeles Video Artists (LAVA) meeting on Tuesday. They’ve been hosting all kinds of interesting audio-video meetings for LA-area VJs, and I’m pleased to be a part of it! I’ll have both the Ohm64 and block on hand, and showing DNA and Union. Come look!

Tuesday, November 10th. 7:30-10pm
Location:
Mr. Coccoon’s Studio
1027 N. Alvarado, Los Angeles CA, 90026

LAVA website post

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With the block now shipping, we’ve quickly dated our monome bridge’s crafty name. “monomeBridge” works with either the Ohm64 or the Block, and auto-detects as needed. If you have multiple blocks/Ohm64s or a mix of block and Ohm64 on your USB ports, you can manually specify which one you want to use.
Download mac, pc, and source code:
http://www.lividinstruments.com/support_downloads.php#monomebridge

There’s a few other features I’ve added:

• You can slow down the rate of messages – letting them go too high seemed to freeze some machines. I also found a bug that may have been the true cause of freezes, so this version should be much more stable.
• The “test” mode lets you confirm the connection between your Livid controller and the computer, letting you draw light patterns.
• There’s an announcement at startup of what port name the software is using, so you know the controller was found and communication works.
• “MIDI thru” will pass the block or Ohm’s MIDI messages to another MIDI port, so it can be used in other apps or devices.

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